What Is A Strike
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Well, what is it? According to the official 2026 MLB rules , a strike—in isolation, absent swings and foul tips—is called when "any part of the ball passes through any part of the strike zone." The strike zone is duly defined, in a long-winded and broadly unpunctuated phrase, as "that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulder


